Gary Saunders — Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and General Manager of Tower Semiconductor USA at Tower Semiconductor Ltd.

Mr. Gary Saunders has been a Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and General Manager of Tower Semiconductor USA at Tower Semiconductor Ltd. since February 2015. Prior to TowerJazz, Mr. Saunders spent five years at Cypress Semiconductor, where he served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales. In this role, he led the global sales organization, driving focus on market share growth and demand creation of high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions for the consumer, mobile handset, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military markets. He served in executive positions including Corporate Vice President of Worldwide Wireless Sales and Market Development for Spansion, Inc., where he led the Wireless Solutions Division global sales organization, with $1.4B in annual revenue. Prior to this, he was employed by Fairchild Semiconductor International, National Semiconductor Corporation and Texas Instruments in various management positions leading sales, marketing and business development initiatives, while delivering profitable results. Mr. Saunders received a B.S. in Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude from Union College, NY and completed the American Electronics Association Program for management of high technology companies at Stanford University Executive Institute, Stanford, CA.